This explains so much. We thought liberalism was a disease turns out its a variant of a gene. ____________
“The study was led by UCSD’s James Fowler and focused on 2,000 subjects from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Scientists matched the subjects’ genetic information with “maps” of their social networks. According to researchers, they determined that people “with a specific variant of the DRD4 gene were more likely to be liberal as adults.” However, the, subjects were only more likely to have leanings to the left if they were also socially active during adolescence.”
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The DRD4 is a dopamine receptor gene. Armchair scientists should have fun with that one. And here’s a little something extra they discovered: ” The researchers also said their findings held true no matter what the ethnicity, culture, sex or age of the subjects were.”
Now that we know what causes this abhoration , and I think we can all agree liberalism is an abhoration, we can fix it. Drugs maybe, some gene splicing thing coming down the path, who knows. But first, don’t let your kids be socially active. And if they must play with other kids for heaven’s sake don’t let them play with a lib’s kid. It sort of feeds into their lib makeup or something.
Mutant genes…hmm. Didn’t I see this in Resident Evil?
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/weird/Scientists-May-Have-IDd-Liberal-Gene-105917218.html
No I don’t know how to embed these things so don’t even ask.
Victoria Coates
Daniel Horowitz
Beware of 'scientific' differences
eastbaylarry (Diary) Thursday, October 28th at 11:48AM EST (link)Remember what the nazies were trying to do!
With government healthcare, persons not possessing the correct genes may find that their ‘routine vacination’ will actually cause them to join in with the dead in voting democrat next cycle.
Euthanasia is still very much supported by the statists.
2+2=4 dammit!
but eastbay, we can fix them so they're productive
tngal (Diary) Thursday, October 28th at 12:07PM EST (link)members of society. We know now what causes their inane ramblings, that weird turretts thing where they are constantly spouting the word racist And now that we know what’s causing it, it becomes our duty to help them.
No need to "fix" them, they're already not reproducing
civil truth (Diary) Thursday, October 28th at 12:23PM EST (link)I trust you left off the /facetious tag at the end
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
http://www.gmsplace.com/
civiltruth
tngal (Diary) Thursday, October 28th at 12:32PM EST (link)can’t you tell 90 percent of write/say is facetious and 5 percent is flat out snark?
I was thinking more of eastbaylarry's comment
civil truth (Diary) Thursday, October 28th at 1:34PM EST (link)That seemed to be a serious response – so I was addressing the /facetious bit to him and lurkers.
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
http://www.gmsplace.com/
My comments are serious
eastbaylarry (Diary) Thursday, October 28th at 3:48PM EST (link)If you think it can’t happen here, then ask yourself if what you would have thought ten years ago about most of what has happened in this country in the last two years.
No snark, not kidding.
2+2=4 dammit!
I'm getting into hot water fast
civil truth (Diary) Thursday, October 28th at 5:04PM EST (link)The author was engaged in parody. This seemed evident to me but might not be to humorless lurkers – and I wasn’t sure whether you took the post seriously or not
However, the substance of what the author was parodying – which you alluded to – is getting very scary in terms of the growing field of genetic profiling – especially since I’m well aware that the eugenics movement is alive and gaining influence due to folks like Peter Singer.
Euthanasia (which is really just plain murder) is part and parcel of this eugenics mentality, because once you decide that certain other people’s lives are no longer worth living – or are consuming too many resources, or just a plain bother – then you just kill them off.
The novel element getting closer to the truth behind the parody – is that the time might not be far away when we see genetic profiling for political persuasion – followed by the government “euthanizing” non-conforming persons or perhaps just “treating” them until they conform or are removed to “holding areas” – for their own good of course.
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
http://www.gmsplace.com/
civil + eastbay
tngal (Diary) Thursday, October 28th at 5:50PM EST (link)The study was real. I found it humerous that there was actually a biological connection with liberalism and a gene. I had honestly put liberalism down to parental and social factors along with the inability to fully educate onesself to all issues and candidates. As to ‘fixing’ them, as in spay or neutering, or actually doing something to alter them or their offspring’s genetic makeup, no I wouldn’t condone it.
There were genetists that wanted to poke on my family to find out why my daughter was born the way she was.. I nixed that straightaway. As a society we are known for trying to cure or fix a problem if it has a medical/biological root. And while libs are a problem I’m afraid we can’t fix them, bad gene or no. But, a girl can dream can’t she?
they are reproducing .. by other means.
acat (Diary) Thursday, October 28th at 1:00PM EST (link)Think an inverse cuckoo’s egg scenario.
Instead of letting conservatives raise their eggs, they’re co-opting conservative kids …
Why else do the libs seek to control academia and pop culture, but to spread their ways of thinking to, as Rush puts it, young skulls full of mush?
No, I don’t think it’s a grand conspiracy, any more than I think the cuckoo’s egg-laying habits are. That doesn’t mean I’m not keeping an eye on what’s on the idiot box or in the textbooks.
Mew
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Caveat Suffragator
So if they can't reproduce, then they have to recruit to continue to the next generation
civil truth (Diary) Thursday, October 28th at 1:43PM EST (link)…sounds like an argument I used to hear about another social group.
Though I think it’s more like the libs are recruiting for the lemmings pilgrimage, singing Mankind is on the way to progress…. [can't find a google link to this song]
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
http://www.gmsplace.com/
Indeed. And was that argument ever disproven? [nt]
acat (Diary) Thursday, October 28th at 1:53PM EST (link)——

Caveat Suffragator
Interesting data delivered in a timely manner.
Philip (Diary) Thursday, October 28th at 2:18PM EST (link)The principal reason for my personal rejoicing is for the timeliness of the information. For quite some time those who consider themselves ‘progressive’ have labeled persons of more conservative dispositions as mentally ill and of questionable sanity. They feel justified in taking whatever actions necessary to solve the woe filled lapse of mental hygiene. Now we know it’s actually their own genetic condition that results in unusual activity in the brain and therefore the mind. I have wondered about this. Fortunately for the children of Liberty we have found out how to identify this characteristic about them before they found out something similar about us. Maybe it’s treatable.